Apr. 14, 2006

Author Michael Pollan: 'the Omnivore's Dilemma'

Where does your food really come from -- and what should you have for dinner? In this segment, Ira talks with author Michael Pollan about his new book, ' The Omnivore's Dilemma.' In it, Pollan traces four meals to their roots, following the food chain backwards. "I wanted to look at the getting and eating of food at its most fundamental, which is to say, as a transaction between species in nature, eaters and eaten," Pollan says. "What I try to do in this book is approach the dinner question as a naturalist might, using the long lenses of ecology and anthropology, as well as the shorter, more intimate lens of personal experience." We'll talk with him about how we get our food, from industrial processes to farming to hunting and gathering.